Greek misfortune

Ian McEwan is surprised that there aren't more novels about climate change (Report, 29 May). That, I assume, is apart from George Turner's The Sea and Summer (1988), Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather (1994), Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain (2004) and its two sequels, and dozens of novels such as Peter F Hamilton's Mindstar Rising (1993) which are set in futures where the results of global warming are a reality. I could go on, but there wouldn't be room for the next instalment of Greece-related puns.

Andy Sawyer

Science fiction librarian, University of Liverpool Library

• As a Greek, I have been mildly irritated by the punning correspondence on our national misfortune, and Camilla Weich's letter (28 May) is not only offensive but misleading. For the umpteenth time, Britain, hummus is not Greek! It comes from the Middle East, and in Greece it can be found only in Lebanese restaurants.

Aliki Chapple

Lancaster

• I particularly enjoy the Greek letters when I pop into my local for a swift alpha beta.

Dr Quentin Burrell

Ballabeg, Isle of Man

• Yet another British soldier is deemed by an inquest to have suffered an "unlawful killing" (Report, 29 May). This verdict usually leads to a police investigation. Are we going to chase every Taliban fighter according to British law, or is it the British position in Afghanistan that is unlawful? What is the purpose of this verdict?

Ed Wilson

Stockport

• The hedonistic life of many members and supporters of the English Defence League, fuelled by alcohol and drugs, would be transformed by embracing Islam (Inside the violent world of Britain's new far right, 29 May). Happy, fulfilled lives would replace angry, hate-filled and aimless existences.

Dr Adnan Al-Daini

Exeter

• When Nicholas Ridley visited a bus garage in Newcastle-upon-Tyne he asked the drivers if they took their buses home at the end of their shifts (Letters, 28 May)